Are you tired of keeping track of advertising on your blog and hard coding all those banner ads? I was too and I went on a search for something better. I found the answer at Max Blog Press with their Max Banner Ads product.
Installation was very easy. All I had to do was download the package and use the WordPress installer. Setup was pretty self explanatory. Unlike most plugins where you find the settings in the Settings tab, Max Banner Ads is found in the Tools menu. I setup my first 125×125 button with no problem at all. One of my favorite features with Max Banner Ads is being able to put code from affiliate such as LinkShare and have the plugin convert it to their format that was nice.
Ads can easily be placed in widget areas or at the top or bottom and within pages. Unfortunately, my template doesn’t have a widget area where I want to put the ads so I have to either configure the code to do so or add the Tag for hard code. I didn’t have time to change the theme code so I just hard coded it into the sidebar.php file using the “Tag” feature. As of right now, this isn’t working properly because it isn’t rotating. Other than that issue, the code is working fine.
I can now see how many impressions are shown of each advertisement and how many clicks each one gets which means I can sell banner space to people and stop it depending on the amount of clicks/impressions and tell my customer how many times the user clicked or how many times the banner was shown. What would be really nice to have that I didn’t see available, is a way to stop impressions and clicks based on a number given or a date.
If I can figure out how to fix my banner ad rotation problem, I’m going to keep using the Max Banner Ads plugin as it is an easy way for me to keep track. I do hope they add these features at a later date. It will make my life a whole lot easier.
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